OK..I agree with most of that......however, Germany made the mistake of opening the war on TWO fronts..and that most certainly put the nail in the coffin for them.
BTW, I'm glad that when the Allied Forces invaded Normandy, I'm glad they used slingshots and bows and arrows!...maybe even banged a few rocks together in the process!
As far as Hollywood's version...Do you mean that John Wayne, didn't win that Battle of the Bulge by himself??..I thought Audie Murphy and him slaughtered the whole of the German forces...(BTW, John Wayne was a '4-F'..meaning he was turned down for the military for physical or medically unfit reasons...just a tidbit)....

As for, Rapparee's, ".....you mean like the Black Panther Party? The Huey Newton Gun Club? W.E.B. DuBois? Harriet Tubman? Frederick Douglass? The New Black Liberation Militia? The New Black Panther Party? Deacons for Self-Defense? Nation of Islam? Revolutionary Action Movement?"....You mean all of Obama's buddies???? His Justice Department seems to overlook those groups altogether...for any and every thing...like the drug cartels....
Just a thought... have you ever wondered WHY those groups haven't been reigned in???....I guess if the ideological mindset is 'useful', why go after them?
I was referring to those groups(the ones I mentioned who hold a 'traditional view' of America.

Look, I'm NOT promoting, nor defending the use or reasons that gun people like their guns...merely stating that IF a policy came about in gun confiscation, or over regulating them out of existence, that the backlash would be VERY bloody. Just imagine if someone came to YOUR door and demanded YOUR guns. I don't think your re-action would be quite the same as 'Trick or Treaters, at Halloween!

If you don't like guns, don't get one....if you want to get rid of their use, I'd suggest promoting calm, and unity, being a living example of Love, Peace, and tolerance. It worked for Gandhi, throwing off British oppression, and it worked for Dr. Martin Luther King. Blaming guns for all the violence, is like blaming Rosie O'Donnell's fork for her being so fat! Perhaps, we should focus more on people's values...and raise them, by example, rather than catering to the lowest common denominators in society! and passing laws to accommodate the stupidest, by forcing all those who aren't prone to be as stupid, into laws dictated by the needs of the stupid few...perhaps the need to feel like one needs a gun would subside.....and that goes for a whole lot of other things, as well!
The government, allegedly, bans illegal drug use...so, how's that going???

GfS